Abstract: Process and equipment for the treatment of loads or residues of non-ferrous metals and their alloys including the steps of loading of scraps or dross to be processed; heating the load (29) and melting the metal; revolving the heated load (29), tapping the molten metal and emptying the cavity (28) of the furnace, being the heating up of the load (29) or residues (23) to a temperature above the melting temperature of the metal or non-ferrous alloy to be recovered carried out by means of a free burning convective arc which is independent from the supply of external gas to the process, and which may dispense with the use of melting salts.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 18, 2005
Publication date:
August 28, 2008
Applicants:
Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnologicas do Est. S. Pau, Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Pau
Inventors:
Antonio Carlos Da Cruz, Oskar Wessel Bender